Interviews/blogs
A timeline
2012
✧ Hitorie was formed
2013
2014
2015
✧ 03/?? Yonezu x wowaka(Hitorie) MUSICA Interview
"Yonezu Kenshi and wowaka - Through 2009~2011, a span of about 2 years, they went under the name “Hachi” and “wowaka” as VOCALOID producers, dominating a vast amount of impact and overwhelming popularity. And they didn’t stop there, now they’re challenging the next stage by..."
✧ 11/04 Shutter Doll release interview
"EMTG: When did you write these songs?
wowaka: Immediately after Mono-chrono Entrance. From the rhythm to the melody, I felt like they were a whole new type compared to everything prior, since when I showed the songs to the band. There, everyone told me they liked it..."
2016
✧ 06/19 CUT magazine Interview
"With such tenacity Hitorie are always having concerts, strengthening each other’s muscles and trust, and continue to make funky dance rock songs. Their ninth album DEEPER is a masterpiece that..."
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2017
✧ 05/22 Official Blog #18
"After just arriving home from ARABAKI Rock Festival last week, and just finishing off JAPAN JAM this week, we had our IKI Tour final. We’ve been performing a lot this year, and we’ll be performing but, before we do anything else..."
✧ 10/22 wowaka’s twitcast
I translated all the >BIG< reveals from wowaka’s talk show into bullets, and there’s nothing you can do about it
✧ 12/07 ai/SOlate Meetia Interview
"A leader of the vocaloid scene, wowaka, and satan and doggo and the old man who writes the Chikyuu Monogatari manga on this Meetia as well, have been the best rock band ever since 2012. yes, yes"
✧ 12/?? Skream! Interview
"The most prominent out of the new sounding songs, are the two “Loveless” and “Namid[A]me”. They’ve become songs with a taste of club music in them, with an almost warmth they’re so danceable "
2018
✧ 01/?? “Gourmet Tokyo” Episode 22
"I’ll be in your care. Hello, it’s Yumao.
At last this moment has come, on 2017/12/6 Hitorie released the new mini album “ai/SOlate”! Hitorie’s past, present, and so our ideas for the future, all of it squeezed tight into one album, I think we..."
✧ 01/?? “Gourmet Tokyo” Episode 23
"During the mid-February that I’m writing this, I feel like the cold has finally alleviated, or if I say that the biggest cold wave in history is going to get recorded isn’t it, smoothly worrying about that, yet, I normally love the snow so a cold that freezes over and would allow for me to play in the snow is also something I’d also be slightly happy about, that’s the sort of ygarshy I am."
✧ 01/17 LUCKAND Interview
They’ve been working as a tag team since Hitorie’s 1st major album WONDER & WONDER, it’s Hitorie’s frontman wowaka and the artist Tetsuya Nagato. Of course the symbolic design of their new album “aisolate” too, and all their past MVs, from the full size ones to the short ones, so many Hitorie’s productions have been directed by Nagato.
✧ 03/04 wowaka’s twitcast
There’s 70+ wowaka fun-facts shoved into one thread, if you ever wanted to get to know the happy glasses boy better.
✧ 05/?? “Gourmet Tokyo” Episode 24
"Hello, what’s up It’s Shinoda here this time for Gourmet Tokyo,
This column was written on April 16th.
I failed to present a Tokyo restaurant last time, so with a head so swollen that it was ready to pop I had said “I’ll do it right this time~ Ho~ Where should we go~”. Yet when I was once shamelessly keeping my head down, as I walked down..."